Albuquerque's
Environmental StoryAlbuquerque's
Environmental Story
Select five places from which students' families, parents
or ancestors, migrated to Albuquerque. Use parent interviews, maps, photographs,
almanacs, and encyclopedias for information about altitude; proximity to water,
amount of sunshine, rain, and snow, proximity to mountains; average January
and July temperatures; and air quality.
Locate these five places on these two drawings.
How does Albuquerque compare with the other cities in the other aspects studies?
What effect, if any, do these factors have on people's daily lives?
Are you satisfied with your physical environment in Albuquerque? How many are not? Why not? Conduct a poll in the class to find out.
Which, if any, of these physical factors can people influence? How? Do Albuquerqueans exert any influence on these factors? If so, which?
Select five cities from which students' families have migrated to Albuquerque. Conduct research to find the following information: age of city; location; population; changes during past century; change since World War II; present strengths and weaknesses.
Why were these cities sites selected for settlement?
What are their major industries?
What are their present unemployment rates?
What financial problems do they have at present? What social problems?
What demographic changes occurred during the early part of the century? Since World War II? During the past decade? Explain.
How do these cities compare with Albuquerque in each of the factors under consideration? Discuss.
Select five cities from which students' families have migrated to Albuquerque. If possible, obtain classified and food ads from Sunday newspapers of each of these cities. Sunday newspapers are available at the Public Libraries.
Which cities appear to offer the best job opportunities?
How comparable are salaries in these cities? Housing and food costs?
How does Albuquerque compare with these cities in these respects?
Which factors do students consider most important in selecting a place to live: jobs, climate, crime rate, cost of living, recreational opportunities, transportation, etc.?
Rate each on a scale of 1-10 (1-little importance, 10-great importance)
Example: job opportunities 1_______________________________________X_________10
climate 1________________________________________________10
What is a city? Construct a cardboard model of a city.
What are the advantages of a rural area? Of a city? Make a drawing or a painting showing personal feelings about a rural area; a city.
What are your personal preferences regarding climate?
How important do you consider a clean environment to be? What sacrifices would you make in order to have a clean environment?
To what extent does environmental quality affect people's lives?
Make posters and cartoons showing how pollution affects your lives and depicting what you will or must do to ensure a clean environment.
Use a computer draw program if possible. Post your work conspicuously through the school.
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